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Practical Ansible Skills

A 3-day, lab-intensive course designed to help you to use Ansible to automate IT.

GK #821591Virtual Classroom LiveClassroom Live
FormatsVirtual Classroom Live · Classroom LiveTopicsDevOps

What you’ll learn

  • Ansible Overview
    • Ansible Architecture
    • Ansible theory of operation/history
    • Inventories
    • Deploying and Installtiong Ansible (installation, major configuration files, commands,inventories)
  • Ansible Elements
    • Playbooks (YAML, modules)
    • Variables and inclusions (facts, etc)
    • Labs and use cases
  • Provisioning with Ansible
    • Task Control (Construction Flow Control, Handlers, Tags, Errors)
    • Jinja2 Templates
  • Managing Ansible
    • Roles (structure, creating roles)
    • Ansible galaxy
    • Managing Multiple servers
    • Ansible Automation
    • Ansible Management Best practices
    • Ansible and DevOps (Ansible for AWS, Azure)
    • Ansible Modules
  • Additional Ansible Topics
    • Optimizing Ansible (configuring connection types, delegations, and parallelisms
    • Working with the Ansible Vault (configuration and execution)
    • Troubleshooting issues (playbooks, etc)
    • Ansible Tower (overview, installing, account management, hosts, jobs)
    • Ansible vs. other platforms (terraform, etc.)

Upcoming training

Dates and availability are confirmed by Bolt when we follow up. All times are shown in the provider’s stated time zone.

2026-11-02 — 2026-11-048:30 AM - 4:30 PM EST
Virtual Classroom LiveONLINE · English